Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sugar into Alcohol. Shortly before World War II. the French interests who controlled Egypt's sugar-refining business started selling their stock at a high price in the hope of buying it back later at a lower figure. For two years, Abboud quietly bought up all the refinery stock he could lay hands on in the Cairo and Paris exchanges, got a seat on the refinery board and took over the management...
...Abboud spotted another field that would fit nicely with his sugar business: he forced a foreign-owned distillery of industrial alcohol, the only one in Egypt, out of business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons-a-year nitrate fertilizer plant financed by an Export-Import Bank loan, the first in Egypt, and a half interest in the contracting of a $10 million hydroelectric project on the Nile...
...R.A.F. doctor who administered the sodium amytal conceded that, administered in conjunction with alcohol at a time of emotional unbalance, it could have "an unusual effect." Another doctor testified that such a dose could well have left her incapable of knowing what she was doing...
...Montgomery's doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...
Appleton, Wisc.--Despite its location in the midst of Wisconsin farmland Lawrence College is definitely not Godforsaken. Rather, it is His adversary who seems to have passed the college by, for with stringent rules against alcohol and automobiles, and a required course in religion, Lawrence is, in the words of one professor, "a hotbed of morality...